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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦

@fitinfounder.bsky.social
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(She/elle) Entrepreneur, feminist, F1 fan depuis 1996, ukulele is life. BLUE JAYS FOREVER 💙 (Interim) CEO @IEF-FIE.bsky.social COO @CanWCC.bsky.social Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce CanWCC.ca/join Opinions my own.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 15h
The best investigative journalism leads to important columns like this from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social. #Gift 🎁 #ToPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
It all creates ethical and trust issues. Beyond the potential privacy breaches around contact collection, an app like this can blur the distinction between heartfelt support and what is sometimes called “AI-slop”: shoddy or thin material passed off as natural or human made.

The Victory app taps into our worst social media impulses to comment on everything, supercharging it, turning supporters into human-machines posting similar messages. A virtual army, as it were. An older term for flooding the zone with provocative, sometimes propagandic, material was “agitprop.” This new version could be called “agitslop.”
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 13h
Economic violence against women through the use of digital IDs is a growing, rarely recognized problem in Denmark and across Europe, reports Polina Bachlakova.
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How Denmark's National Digital ID Fuels Economic Violence Against Women
They are meant to be secure—but digital IDs and banking apps are enabling economic abuse against women, reports Polina Bachlakova.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.
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Stephen Kelman @stephenkelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m a Caravaggio fanboy, but Artemisia’s version is so much better than his: emotionally more truthful, and technically superior (just compare the blood).
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ford cut anaesthetic for colonoscopies within OHIP, and surprise surprise: private clinics include that in their procedures, so now everyone “asks” to be sent to private clinics. Shameful.
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It takes strength to look in the mirror”. In #Canada today, we recognize National Day of #TruthandReconciliation. Premier of #Manitoba, #WabKinew explains the importance of learning about what Canada did to Indigenous children in Residential Schools and work TOWARDS Truth and Reconciliation.
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Marc Quill / WON/F4W / QB1 Publishing @marcquill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
baseball blues
rogers centre and cn tower in the dark
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Problematic. Privacy matters, Brad.
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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario Government does municipal road design now apparently. "wants bidders to provide plans to “remove or relocate” islands, medians and gutters and “incorporate congestion relief measures at all major intersections to improve traffic flow, such as traffic signal adjustments"
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 28/09/2026
A NEW CHAPTER OF HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA 📺 Hockey Night in Canada returns December 5 with the 2026 Walter Cup Champion Montréal Victoire taking on PWHL Hamilton at 7PM ET!
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PWHL HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Hockey Night in Canada is returning. But it’ll be Professional Women’s Hockey League games on Saturday nights. Details here: www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
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CBC/Radio-Canada announces return of Hockey Night in Canada in PWHL partnership | CBC Sports
CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada is returning for a 90th season this fall after all. But instead of six-plus months of NHL action, the longest-running sports program in the world will air eight prime time...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 28/09/2026
As CCPA Senior Researcher @alonghurst.bsky.social explains in his report, covered below, the Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services. #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
Meteorologist just said it's gonna be 80 degrees by the end of the week after two days of nor'easter wind and rain and highs of 60. Mother nature in perimenopause too smh
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a great, balanced overview of the so-called 'mega' depreciation deduction announced by Ottawa, from @marclee.bsky.social at @policyalternatives.ca: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc.... Including long-lived petroleum assets (pipelines & LNG plants) is dubious & harmful to the climate.
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The Canadian government's new “mega” corporate tax cut  | CCPA
What you need to know about the Productivity Mega Deduction, the latest measure purportedly designed to induce an investment boom.
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 24/09/2026
The next time someone demands you vote strategically, ask: "Will that candidate support proportional representation so no one ever has to vote strategically again?" If the answer is no, refuse to play their game. They are simply using fear to hold onto power.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hung out in the labs at the back of the Science Centre when I was in high school and the scientists were all brilliant and supportive while Doug Ford spent his high school years selling hash, so this makes perfect sense.
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Alison Motluk @alisonmotluk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thoughts going into the municipal elections… My latest for The Local Doug Ford vs. Toronto - thelocal.to/toronto-city...
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Doug Ford vs. Toronto | The Local
Good news: your community elected a councillor and even a mayor who share your vision for the city. Then the province steps in.
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
She used basic income to keep the lights on while building a consulting business. 4 years later: the business is still earning, and she's working full-time too. Stability creates entrepreneurs.
AOL news. Lady smiles at a microphone in a white blazer, beside a headline about basic income helping her start a business.
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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RIP Ontario Science Centre. This hurts a lot, yet sadly doesn't surprise me given how the person running my province is hellbent on destroying what was a wonderful institution that inspired so many people.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ships traveling between the upper Great Lakes and the Atlantic must pass through Canada’s Welland Canal. The 27-mile canal and all eight of its locks are entirely in Ontario, meaning a strategically important portion of U.S. Great Lakes maritime trade depends on Canadian-controlled infrastructure.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dear Google Chrome: go fuck yourself. I have moved my settings and account to duckduckgo.com Signed an independent and free Canadian.
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DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 14/08/2026
Oh look, a new study says DEI works, who knew? WE DID. We fucking knew 😂
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Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation (IEF) @ief-fie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Finance shouldn’t be the barrier to building the business of your dreams. IEF’s Business Financing Fundamentals is designed for Toronto entrepreneurs—targeting +40% financial knowledge and -20% financial anxiety. 100 spots available. Apply now - first come first served: bit.ly/3XKZ71X
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Jeffrey Mar @jeffreymar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“If we pass one boundary, we should be shitting our pants. We’ve passed seven!” - David Suzuki on the need for climate adaptation.
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Almost all women are impacted by unpaid care work. The Care Economy is also Essential Infrastructure and Canada needs to start investing in it the same way we invest in highways and pipelines. If you agree, sign petition e-7463: bit.ly/mpo-petition ---
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Petition e-7463 - Petitions
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey hey. Rarely do you see such a valuable delivery to a political base. Well done, Ontario killers.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today is the CN Tower's 50th birthday. The @thestar.com has a package celebrating this milestone, including a column by me. It still helps define the city, even as Toronto has radically changed around it & it's no longer the tallest. Old, but still looks like the future.
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Shawn Micallef: 50 years on, why the CN Tower still defines Toronto — even if the definition has changed
Even after five decades, the CN Tower still looks sleek and futuristic with its space shuttle cool stylings.
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Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
AI not yielding meaningful return for nearly half of business leaders: BDO report
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AI not yielding meaningful return for nearly half of business leaders: BDO report
TORONTO - A new report says 46 per cent of Canadian business leaders surveyed are experimenting with AI without achieving a meaningful return on their investment.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
One more thing on the Montréal shooting: refusing to acknowledge Incel ideology and violence as terrorist in nature is, in and of itself, misogynistic. Misogyny is a political system designed to repress and subordinate women. Denying Incel as terrorism is just one more legal exclusion of women.
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 19/06/2026
The demise of future-thinking in contemporary politics coincides with its renewed embrace in the world of Big Tech.
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The End of the Future
Only Silicon Valley looks ahead now.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 16/06/2026
"Fortress North America does not create leverage. It’s a self-serving offering to Trump that exploits public fears in "Ontario about the trade war to further contested aspects of Premier Ford’s agenda," said Stuart Trew @policyalternatives.ca #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Doug Ford’s sucking up to Washington gets us nowhere
His latest pitch to Donald Trump wasn’t a plan, it was a hope and a prayer
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/06/2026
Three young women and two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government seeking to force it to develop an action plan to meet its key climate goals.
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Canada government sued over climate inaction
Three young women and two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government seeking to force it to develop an action plan to meet its key climate goals.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"The port authority has also asked city staff and the mayor’s office to sign a nondisclosure agreement over the discussions; Chow said she refused."
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Mayor Olivia Chow accuses federally mandated port authority of hiding early plans for Billy Bishop
The Toronto Port Authority has repeatedly promised that all of its stakeholders, including the city, will eventually be consulted before a final version of the Billy Bishop expansion plan is made publ...
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 15/06/2026
Poilievre’s Conservatives’ latest ad featured ‘Canadians’ who weren’t even real. It takes us to a dark place, @justinling.ca writes www.thestar.com/opinion/star... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Justin Ling: Poilievre’s Conservatives’ latest ad featured ‘Canadians’ who weren’t even real. It takes us to a dark place
AI-generated political ads aren't just bad, they're corrosive.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ontario ER doctors raise alarm on hospital overcrowding. Three-quarters of ER physicians surveyed by Ontario Medical Association rate overcrowding as critical or severe, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Ontario ER doctors raise alarm on hospital overcrowding
Three-quarters of ER physicians surveyed by Ontario Medical Association rate overcrowding as critical or severe
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
STILL HE RISES!! ❤️ #LH44
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Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation (IEF) @ief-fie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
June is National Indigenous History Month. 🧡 Are you an Indigenous or Northern entrepreneur? We want to hear about your experiences, challenges, and successes. Help shape research, advocacy, and programming across Canada. Survey: form.jotform.com/261515579249...
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Clone of CANIE Have Your Say Survey - May 2026
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I’ll always bet on humans. ❤️
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 05/06/2026
“Oh no who could’ve possibly seen this coming??” take #53,865 😐
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Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff
Layoffs made to save money proved more costly for 75 per cent of organizations that let staff go, according to one study
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Catherine Adare 🇨🇦 @fitinfounder.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Doug is concerned about students “taking basket weaving” and telling them it won’t prepare them for the workforce but he can’t do his own job. (Hmmm I forget HIS credentials?)
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 03/06/2026
Almost 800 positions at the Toronto public school board are on the chopping block — including more than 200 teachers who have received surplus notices warning them they could be out of work come the fall. The board was taken over by the provincial government a year ago.
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Almost 800 positions at the Toronto District School Board on chopping block
That includes more than 200 teachers who got notices warning they could be out of work this fall, according to a document filed with Labour Ministry.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
John Fraser on why the Ford government is avoiding the legislature: "They don't want to be held accountable for the things that are happening because it's a government that's eight years in. It's tired, out of touch and losing its way."
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Tech Policy Press is hiring a Managing Editor to run its day-to-day editorial operations across web, newsletter, and podcast formats. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/OM8oPUg
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"... with this basic income, I'm able to focus on improving my résumé, working on projects, and building my network. The stipend doesn't feel like permission to stop working. If anything, it's the opposite. It gives me enough stability to actually invest in myself again."
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